BARACK OBAMA - THE GREAT DIVISIONIST - SAYS PETE BUTTIGIEG IS TOO GAY AND JOE BIDEN TOO STUPID TO BE PRESIDENT - SOME SAY LAWYER OBAMA TOO UP MUSLIM DICTATORS' ASSES TO GET THIRD TERM

 

Obama's Reasons for Why Mayor Pete Couldn't Win Might Offend Some, But Did You Catch What He Said About Biden?

Matt Vespa

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Posted: Mar 06, 2021 12:25 AM

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It's October 2019. Barack Obama is meeting with some elite black donors for his foundation and gets into a discussion about the current top crop of the 2020 Democratic field. This based on the excerpts Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency by Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen. The excerpt described how Obama, who usually doesn’t like to “glad-hand” with donors, but the authors noted that the former president was on a “covert political mission” with this gathering held across from Robert De Niro’s Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca. He wanted to get back into the game…without getting back into the game. Love him or hate him, Obama knew how to win elections and knew what it took to win. He gave remarks and during the Q&A session, the question was rested at his feet: “If Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Kamala Harris asked for advice, what would you tell them?”

At the time, this was the emerging cream of the crop. Obama offered some rosy remarks about Warren, but just stopped short of the water’s edge of endorsing her. He made sure to make a joke of the situation while making sure that yes—he wasn’t endorsing the Massachusetts liberal. He didn’t really go into Kamala Harris much, other than saying that he knew her. But it’s Mayor Pete and Joe Biden that things get interesting. For starters, Obama said that Mayor Pete couldn’t win because he was too gay and short. For Biden, well, the silence said everything, according to Parnes and Allen. The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained the excerpt:

Usually, Obama eschewed making substantive remarks at informal shindigs like this. A touch on the shoulder here, his classic “How are you?” there, a pat on the back, and out the door. But these were guys who liked him and guys he genuinely liked— a group with whom he intended to leave an important if subtle message about the election. Obama made his way back toward the door and delivered an announcement to the crowd of forty or so people.

“I’m gonna take a few questions,” he said.

The session began with a fastball, a pitch down the middle for the issue Obama wanted to address. “If Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, and Kamala Harris asked for advice, what would you tell them?” a prominent executive queried.

“They all did!” he popped back, eliciting laughter from the crowd.

Obama paused for a moment, collecting himself before shocking the audience with the singular message that he had wanted to deliver. He embraced the prospect of a Warren presidency. After nearly eleven months of campaigning, the race looked like it had stabilized with four truly competitive candidates: Joe, Bernie, Elizabeth, and Pete. Each had a claim to the advantage; no one was a prohibitive favorite. Until the past week or two, though, Warren had been rising steadily. The biggest obstacle to her success, it seemed, was convincing the establishment that she was truly different from Bernie, enough of a mainstream politician to be trusted with the reins of government. Now Obama was making that case for her.

Ignoring the other candidates, he launched a lawyerly argument, methodically ticking off the objections to Warren he knew existed in the minds of his corporate and financial friends. He knew Elizabeth, he said, very well. They had intersected during his time at Harvard, and then again during his time in the Senate where she often testified as an expert witness. He’d also “hired” her to stand up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. And while he didn’t appreciate the smattering of attacks she’d made during his presidency, he said he was sure that she was a tough- as nails campaigner who could get things done in Washington, should she succeed him as the next Democratic president.

After establishing himself as an authority on Warren, Obama underscored that she had cleared his threshold for viability not only as a candidate but as president. Standing before the crowd, he said he had encouraged all the candidates to ask themselves a three- question litmus test. “Why you?” Obama said. “Why now?” and “Is your family behind you?” He expressed confidence in Warren, saying she had considered each question and had a satisfactory answer to all three. “Many candidates like the idea of being president,” he told the crowd. “But few really have a ‘why,’ ” or a rationale for running.

Obama paused again, before making his final appeal, squarely addressing the elephant in the room, in a tone that was half- ribbing and half- reprimanding. “So what if she raises your taxes a little bit? Compare that to what we have now.” This was definitely not a time to sit on the sidelines, Obama said with some urgency. If Warren won

the nomination, he said he would support her and stressed that he wanted Wall Street and corporate types to do the same. “Everyone in this room needs to pull their weight,” he said. Republicans, he continued, are winning cycle after cycle, up and down the ballot, because their donors care more than the Democrats’ donors.

Like so many other Democrats, he saw Warren, who had taken the lead in Iowa from Biden in late September, barreling toward the nomination. It was time to start swinging folks in his coalition be- hind her. The persuasion effort among Black men would be as difficult as it was crucial. Hillary’s loss could be attributed in part to insufficient support among Black men in major cities, and she had never had the support of elite Black men that she had among Black women. Things would have to be different for Warren. She would need the votes of Black men on the ground and the money of Black men in boardrooms— especially because she had forsworn buck-raking with wealthy donors. “Now, this is not an endorsement!” he said with a grin. His audience got the joke and laughed with him. He’d just given his seal of approval to Warren without using the “e” word.

“It was a ninety percent Warren sermon,” said one donor in the room. When he was asked to return to the original question on his advice, Obama said he liked Buttigieg, a rising talent who’d worked on his own campaign. But despite his affinity for the South Bend mayor, he rattled off a list of reasons why Buttigieg couldn’t win.

“He’s thirty- eight,” Obama said, pausing for dramatic effect, “but he looks thirty.” The audience laughed. Obama was on a roll, using the tone of light ridicule he some-times pointed at himself— “ big ears” and “a funny name,” he’d said so many times before. Now, it was directed at Buttigieg. “He’s the mayor of a small town,” the former president continued. “He’s gay,” Obama said, “and he’s short.” More laughter.

Only months earlier, Buttigieg had sat in Obama’s post presidential office in Washington seeking counsel on how to maintain equanimity in the face of homophobia on the campaign trail. Now, behind his back, Obama was riffing on him to some of the wealthiest Black men in America at a time when Buttigieg had been dubbed “Mayo Pete” by critics who believed he couldn’t connect with African American voters.

Obama kept going, acknowledging that he knew Kamala Harris but offering no further commentary. But when he wrapped up, he had left someone out. “You forgot Biden,” one executive said, reminding him of his two- term vice president.

Obama seemed apprehensive, according to a source in the room. “His support for Biden was tepid at best,” the person said. At that point, it didn’t matter what he said about Biden. His silence spoke for him.

Ouch. Well, we’ve all known that Obama and others are looser lipped at these sorts of events. The former president did describe rural Americans as bitter clingers who clung to their guns and religion during the 2008 election, but in an era where anything offends the Left and gets the woke mob riled up—saying someone can’t win a national election because they’re too gay maybe striking that chord. Whatever. That’s a debate for liberals to have with one another. The Joe Biden part of this excerpt is short but revealing. This isn’t the first time Obama has made it known that he really didn’t want Joe to run for president. He also made it known that he wasn’t too keen on Biden’s propensity to screw things up—royally. Maybe opinions have changed now that Joe is president, but the confidence level that he could do it was certainly not there. Hence, the name of the book, I guess. There’s a reason why top Biden aides are saying the quiet part out loud to some folks about the 2020 election, which is ‘thank God for COVID’ because Trump would have slaughtered Biden in an election with no pandemic—easily. 

Book: Obama ‘Enamored’ with Beto O’Rourke, Skeptical of Joe Biden in 2020 Democratic Primary

Feared 'Biden would dishonor himself with a bad campaign'

 
 
 

Andrew Stiles - MARCH 4, 2021 4:00 PM

A new book on the 2020 election provides more evidence suggesting former president Barack Obama has a remarkably low opinion of his former sidekick, Joe Biden.

"Obama's fears about Biden and his team ran deep—deeper than defeat," journalists Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes write in Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency. "Obama worried that his former vice president would embarrass himself on the campaign trail and that the people around him would not be able to prevent a belly-flop."

Obama, who had vowed to remain neutral during the Democratic primary in 2020, had repeatedly urged Biden not to run for president. "It had stung Biden badly in 2015 when Obama made clear his preference for Hillary Clinton," the authors write. "Adding insult to injury, Obama's advisers told Biden aides back then that they didn't think he could beat Clinton. They pressured him to get out of the way."

Obama's lack of support in 2016 was especially insulting to Biden because the former VP thought Hillary was a "terrible candidate" who would be easy to beat.

In 2019, Obama tried once again to talk Biden out of running. "You don't have to do this, Joe, you really don't," the former president told Biden, according to the New York Times. Allen and Parnes explain that Obama's "reluctance to bless Biden's candidacy" was born out of a "fear that Biden would dishonor himself with a bad campaign."

Obama ended up being wrong about Biden's prospects and seems to have embarrassingly misjudged the Democratic primary in general. "Obama, like much of his brain trust, seemed to be enamored with a former Texas congressman, Beto O'Rourke," the authors write.

O'Rourke, whose most notable accomplishment before running for president was losing an election to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), launched his campaign with a Vanity Fair cover story in March 2019. Many of the Democratic Party's foremost political pundits insisted that Beto was a formidable candidate who reminded them of Obama and John F. Kennedy.

Beto's splashy entry into the Democratic primary was fueled by the support of wealthy Obama donors, as well as former Obama aides, including the "Pod Save America" bros. The fact that Obama himself was "enamored" with the failed candidate might have had something to do with it.

Alas, even Obama's infatuation could not save the former congressman from another failed campaign. Beto dropped out of the race in November 2019, just eight months after launching his campaign and months before the Iowa caucuses. (He would have struggled to finish in the top 10.)

The new revelations about Obama's views on Biden are supported by previous reporting. Biden has said the former president "was not encouraging" heading into the Democratic primary in 2020. During the campaign, Obama reportedly assessed that Biden "really doesn't have it" and warned Democrats not to "underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up."

Even after Biden won the Democratic nomination, Obama declined to donate any money to his general election campaign, despite being a multimillionaire. Just days after Biden's victory in November, the former president stole the spotlight by launching a book tour.

Beto is currently "thinking about" launching a failed campaign for governor of Texas.

On the policy front, the White House has rapidly undone almost all of Trump's reversals of Obama policies, while ratcheting up the Obama agenda with even more radical steps than Obama took in his first eight years of "fundamentally transforming" the country.  The border is open again.  The Keystone Pipeline is canceled.  Coal-mining and energy independence are out.  Subsidies to "green energy" and Big Tech are back.  So are Big Pork and the great party slush fund.

Barack Obama Has Now Been President Longer than FDR

By Ayad Rahim

This week, Barack Obama passed Franklin Roosevelt for the longest presidential tenure in American history.

What's that, you say? — president for longer than FDR?  But FDR was elected president four times; Obama was elected president two times.

Yes, all of that is true. That's why this record has an asterisk next to it.

For anyone with eyes to see, the current presidency is being run by Barack Obama. 

Even before this presidency began, its roots were laid in Obama's home in Washington.  Over the past couple of years, Obama House was the royal court for receiving, selecting, and anointing the party's standard-bearer for 2020.  Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris were Obama's favored candidates, and Obama House functioned as the campaign war room.  But Harris gained no traction, and she dropped out of the race on December 3, 2019, exactly two months before the Iowa caucuses. 

That left Warren — to face off against Bernie Sanders in the left-wing bracket of the sweepstakes.  The party had already determined, four years earlier, that Sanders was unsuitable as its standard-bearer, because he wielded an abrasive, in-your-face style of Marxism.  Obama himself expressed such sentiments more than once.  So the party scuppered his campaign in 2016.  But in 2020, Sanders was bettering Warren in the early primaries.

So, the Obama camp had to go to plan B — find somebody who was "presentable" to the public. 

In the first two contests of the nominating process, Joe Biden fared badly — maybe even worse than Harris would have done had she stayed in.  He finished a distant fourth in Iowa and a much weaker fifth in New Hampshire.  He was bumbling along on stage and on the hustings and going nowhere fast.  Obama didn't even like Biden — but Biden would have to do.  There weren't really many other options on hand.

So all the other candidates immediately dropped out, the Black vote in South Carolina and across the South was delivered to Biden, and he was anointed the nominee. 

We know the rest of the story: Biden was banished to the basement, the media carried the water for him and continued demonizing Trump, Big Swamp exploited and manipulated a virus, and big-city machines stopped counting the votes late on Election Night to figure out how many "votes" they needed to get their man over the finish line.

This leads us to the inauguration of Joe Biden as president.  On his first day in the White House, Biden expelled the bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office, as Obama had done on his first day in office.  (This was because Churchill was an imperialist and led the suppression of the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya, during which, Obama said, his grandfather was tortured.  Trump brought the Churchill bust back on his first day in office.)

Then there are Biden's appointments.  They say personnel is policy.  Well, the old Obama gang is back, and at the center of the action is Susan Rice.  A foreign policy specialist (ambassador to the United Nations and then national security adviser under Obama), Rice was one of Biden's first appointments, as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council.  That's her official title, but her actual job is Obama's "messenger boy" in the White House and to cover any remaining tracks to past criminal activities.

Heading the White House press room is Jen Psaki.  She was Obama's communications director.  Anthony Blinken moves up a notch, from being Obama's deputy secretary of state to the top job at Foggy Bottom.  Obama's chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, is now secretary of the Treasury.

Anita Dunn, who had to resign from her top post in Obama's Department of Education because she'd praised Chairman Mao, is back.  Merrick Garland, whom Obama wasn't able to get into the Supreme Court in 2016, gets the consolation prize of attorney general — a "take that" from Obama.  Those are the most glaring of a slew of Obama retreads.  It wouldn't be surprising if Van Jones and Samantha Power get appointments soon, and David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Rahm Emanuel, and other members of the Chicago Mafia are major behind-the-scenes players.

Then there are the rewards to the people who tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in 2016 and who took part in the "resistance" to his presidency.  Peter Strzok, his wife, and anybody else who made "sacrifices" in the effort are being compensated for their pain and suffering.

On the policy front, the White House has rapidly undone almost all of Trump's reversals of Obama policies, while ratcheting up the Obama agenda with even more radical steps than Obama took in his first eight years of "fundamentally transforming" the country.  The border is open again.  The Keystone Pipeline is canceled.  Coal-mining and energy independence are out.  Subsidies to "green energy" and Big Tech are back.  So are Big Pork and the great party slush fund.

China is no longer an enemy. Climate change is an existential threat again, and the Paris Accords take center stage.  The Iran nuclear deal is back on — actually, John Kerry never stopped negotiating with Iran.  And to curry favor with Iran, the administration is lifting sanctions against the country and has halted the sale of weapons to its Arab enemies that recently made peace with Israel.  As for Israel, the White House is stiffing the country, big time — especially as it has the wrong leaders.

Okay — so that makes this the beginning of a third term for Obama, but FDR was elected president four times.

To complete the set of four aces, we have to rewind the tape to 2016.  Obama was finishing his second term and handing off leadership of the Marxist revolution to Hillary Clinton.  On the Republican side, three candidates for president — Trump, Cruz, and Carson — were vehemently opposed to Obama, his policies, and the direction of the country.  So Obama spied on their campaigns.  Trump still won. 

But not only did Trump trump the swamp; he then actually tried to put the breaks on the Marxist revolution.  He took steps to reverse the regulatory state, and he allowed the economy to boom.  Worst of all, Trump bruised the swamp's ego.  He exposed it as arrogant, corrupt, and incompetent, and as the entrenched D.C. front of the Marxist revolution.

After he arrived in Washington, Trump quickly learned that Obama was running the "resistance" to his presidency — the government's opposition from within (in the summer of '16, Trump had informed the world that his campaign was being spied on). 

During Trump's four years in Washington, Obama ran the shadow government out of his D.C. home, probably exerting more influence over the wheels of government than the man in the Oval Office did.  Obama lined up whistleblowers, leaks to the press, and resistance to the president from within the government, including in the White House and the president's Cabinet.  He advised "the gang of four" and other radicals on policy and presentation. 

The ultimate goal of the efforts was to impede and hobble the duly elected president; to subvert, sabotage, and undermine his agenda; and to ultimately expel him from office — by any means necessary — in the bowels of government, in the media and entertainment, in academia and education, in Big Tech, Big Finance, and Big Business. 

So we ought to face reality.  As of this week, Obama has been running the show in Washington for 4,424 days — and counting — and he's not shy about letting us know it.

Ayad Rahim, a former journalist, is a bookseller and tutor in the Midwest.

Image: Gage

Joe's Long Decline

By Sally Zelikovsky

In their desperation for a president they could manipulate and in her zeal to be FLOTUS, the Democrat Party and Jill Biden offered Joe Biden as a sacrificial lamb to gain power -- forcing the rest of us to watch, in real time, the disintegration of a human being suffering from dementia.  As far as I’m concerned, this is elder abuse that ranks right up there with the criminal actions of Democrat governors in sending tens of thousands of seniors to their early graves via COVID. 

They can prop Joe up, but he increasingly stumbles in interviews, his public appearances are shorter, his press conferences nonexistent, and his jogs up to the dais have been replaced with him tottering off stage like Tim Conway’s Duane Toddleberry.

Not only does Kamala escort him off stage after standing legs athwart, masked in black like the Hand of the King, but Jill, the quintessential helicopter spouse, is ever-present, holding his hand.  They call it affection but it is really for backup. 

This is astounding behavior for a POTUS and FLOTUS but common among spouses in denial or trying hide what is happening at home.  Jill is the latter -- clearly by his side for reinforcement and to whisk him away when the time is right because he won’t know when to leave a situation, where to go, or how to extricate himself -- as we saw when he asked for questions at a House Democratic Caucus event and the live feed was abruptly terminated.

We saw Jill swoop in when he faltered in a Univision interview about kids in “facilities” on the border.  She interrupted clarifying they were “shelters” and insisted it was being handled “in a more humane way.”   Turns out that Jill has been tasked with supervising immigrant family reunification at the border -- appearing more co-president than dutiful First Lady. This goes way beyond the routine reading, online bullying, and diet initiatives of recent First Ladies.  With life imitating art, one wonders if 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue isn’t starting to resemble House of Cards?

This is not okay.  The President is indisputably on the decline and no one seems to care about his well-being or the nation’s security.     

Stress and anxiety don’t cause dementia but can exacerbate a dementia patient’s confusion. It can be brought on by something as mundane as a large family gathering, a change in routine, a fall, a visit to the hospital, or stress from a job.  While “sundowning” or decompensating after a family event are common fallouts from stress, the real challenge is the accumulation of stress and anxiety over time that leads to confusion and, ultimately, delusions, which, in turn, can foster increased levels of anxiety that can exacerbate the confusion experienced and result in even more delusions, and so forth and so on.  It’s a hellacious cycle.

It goes without saying that the daily pressures of being POTUS dwarf anything we normally experience.  On a given day, Biden will encounter bustling mobs tending to daily White House routines; multiple meetings; travel; calls with congressional members, party leaders, governors, and leaders of foreign nations -- all disruptive and potentially triggering to an elderly dementia patient.  We already see, only six weeks into his presidency, that early bedtimes, calming fires, strict routines, limited schedules, and lowered expectations for public appearances, cannot fend off the effects of this disease.  As POTUS, there is no escape from the stress on which dementia feeds.    

It doesn’t take much for these daily stressors to snowball into the kind of monster that sometimes can only be controlled with heavy-duty medications like Seroquel, which is basically a pharmaceutical lobotomy, or Depakote to control outbursts and agitation, both of which cause incredible fatigue and listlessness.  A president cannot function taking these medications.

For Joe Biden and every other dementia patient, this disease doesn’t improve, stabilize, or go into remission.  The remaining days of those afflicted are a downward spiral of “new normals” to which loved ones have no choice but to adjust. 

The real issue for Biden isn’t what we see, but what is happening behind the scenes. He might pull off a ten-minute address reading from a teleprompter -- albeit with increasing difficulty and such strain on his face and in his voice that it hurts to watch.  But afterwards and behind the Oval Office doors, is when the bedlam begins -- repeated questions about where he is, what is going on, who is with him; difficulty recalling events; garbled speech; and temper tantrums.  Some withdraw; others become belligerent. Speech is nonsensical, anxiety acute, and paranoia common.

As Biden himself would say:  this is serious business, folks.  No joke.

How does this end?  Biden will be forced to resign probably within six months, a year at the latest.  If the powers that be meet any resistance from the Bidens, they’ll threaten to 25th Amendment him and Congress will determine his fitness to hold office.  That requires a 2/3 majority vote each in the House and Senate -- a higher bar than the alternative of impeachment, which requires a majority in the House and 2/3 of the Senate to convict/remove.  While impeachment is a viable alternative, it requires high crimes and misdemeanors.  Thus, to force Joe’s hand, those in charge will circle back… to his Ukraine and China “dealings.” 

Faced with tying up Congress with a messy 25th Amendment process that puts his health on full display or an ugly impeachment with all that implies, Joe will capitulate and resign, and Kamala will be president.  Under the 25th Amendment, her pick for VP requires a majority vote of the House and Senate.  If they wait until the mid-terms to force Joe’s resignation and they lose the House, House Republicans could stonewall vote after vote and the VP position could remain vacant.  Not only would we lack a VP, but there wouldn’t be anyone to break ties in the Senate -- all the more challenging if the Senate remains at 50-50 or close to that after 2022.

Then again, even if Kamala is installed before 2022 and the House approves her VP, it’s highly likely the Senate vote would be tied… and there won’t  be a VP to break the tie!  According to the Senate website, in the absence of a VP, the President Pro Tempore presides over the Senate but authority to break ties lies strictly with the VP.    

I’m not sure if this constitutes a constitutional crisis or just a conundrum, but it would be choppy nonetheless.  Congress would likely craft legislation to fill the vacant veep position.  That would raise hotly debated amendment concerns but, given the last four years, we should be used to the extraordinary when it comes to the Constitution and political warfare.

I don’t foresee any whistleblowers revealing the behind-the-scenes truth about Biden’s condition, but that’s okay. It won’t be long before the cat’s out of the bag and Joe is out of the White House.  We’ll just have to wait-and-see what happens next.